313, Lot: 256. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Hadrian. AD 117-138. Æ As (26mm, 9.09 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 132-135. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / FELICITATI AVG above, COS III P P in exergue, S C across field, galley rowed left by five oarsmen: at the bow a mast raking forward with flag and sails attached, at the stern is a hortator and an arched cabin under a curved aplustre, flanked by vexillum and signum. RIC II 719. Near VF, green patina, earthen encrustations, areas of roughness.

From the Simon Shipp Collection.